Cinema Inferno
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Cinema Inferno

Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins

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eBook - ePub

Cinema Inferno

Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins

About this book

Cinema Inferno: Celluloid Explosions from the Cultural Margins addresses significant areas (and eras) of "transgressive" filmmaking, including many subgenres and styles that have not yet received much critical attention. This collection of essays covers both contemporary films and those produced in the last 50 years to provide a theoretical framework for looking at transgressive cinema and what that means.

This volume begins with a number of essays that examine the aesthetic of "realism," tracing it through the late Italian Neo-Realism of Pasolini, the early films of Melvin Van Peebles, and Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin. Another section focuses on '70s Italian horror and thrillers, including a substantially different examination of filmmaker Dario Argento, as well as essays on critically underrepresented directors Lucio Fulci and Sergio Martino. A section on New York looks at both radical independents like Troma and Andy Milligan, as well as the social context from which a view of the metropolis-in-decay emerged. Sections also cover the experimental work of the Vienna Action Group and controversial filmmaker Michael Haneke, as well as films and genres too idiosyncratic and disturbing to fit anywhere else, including analyses of Nazi propaganda films, fundamentalist Christian "scare" movies, and postwar Japanese youth films. The final essays try to come to terms with a mainstream flirtation with "transgressive" film and Grindhouse aesthetics.

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Information

Publisher
Scarecrow Press
Year
2010
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9780810876576
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Foreword
  2. Part I
  3. chapter 1
  4. chapter 2
  5. chapter 3
  6. Part II
  7. chapter 4
  8. chapter 5
  9. chapter 6
  10. chapter 7
  11. Part III
  12. chapter 8
  13. chapter 9
  14. chapter 10
  15. Part IV
  16. chapter 11
  17. chapter 12
  18. chapter 13
  19. chapter 14
  20. Part V
  21. chapter 15
  22. chapter 16
  23. chapter 17
  24. Part VI
  25. chapter 18
  26. chapter 19
  27. chapter 20

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